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Arkansas medical marijuana program is facing a lack of doctors willing to recommend cannabis to patients. As the old saw says, horses dragged to cool streams can’t be forced to stand and sip. But what about thirsty horses who know there’s water? They can hear it! Everyone’s talking about it! But they can’t, for the…

CBD, or cannabidiol, continues to grow in popularity in the cannabis community. And when things get popular, they begin to be copied, either naturally or synthetically. As synthetic CBD is created and researched, we must know whether or not it poses any risks. Is synthetic CBD dangerous? Synthetic cannabinoids While the legal whole-plant cannabis industry…

Last week, the Cannabis World Congress & Business Expositions announced they have removed Roger Stone from their conference’s keynote talk. The news follows a month-long boycott led by a group of women with the #DisownStone campaign, exhibitors, activists and the Minority Cannabis Business Association (MCBA), among other organizations. According to the press release, conference organizers…

Congress has extended the Rohrabacher-Blumenauer amendment from Sept. 30 through Dec. 8. A bill passed by Congress on Friday to fund the federal government through Dec. 8 will also prevent Attorney General Jeff Sessions from taking action against cannabis providers who are in full compliance with state law for the same time period. The protections…

The trend of summer highs for Colorado’s cannabis industry continued in July as monthly recreational sales surpassed the $100 million mark for the first time since legalization. The Cannabist’s calculations of the latest Colorado marijuana tax data show that the state’s cannabis shops sold nearly $137 million in marijuana products — $101.1 million in adult-use…

Normalization of cannabis commerce is crucial to the long-term success of legalization, and official state recognition is a big deal. Without real progress on the banking front, it’s a largely symbolic advancement, but one with the potential for real benefits moving forward. Alaskans looking to support their state’s local cannabis industry will have a much…

Excess marijuana tax proceeds would provide $10 million for transportation projects, park and recreation center fixes, and a new “community budgeting” program next year under a $2 billion budget proposal unveiled Tuesday by Denver Mayor Michael Hancock. As Denver draws on money flowing in from legalized recreational marijuana, the city in 2018 also would more…

A Scottish newspaper’s internet poll found that 98 percent of respondents thought cannabis should be legal in some form. Among the “Western” democracies, Great Britain is second only to the federal United States in hanging on dearly to the well-exploded myth that cannabis is a threat to humanity. And just like in the U.S., elected…

The Craft Cannabis Alliance is a values-driven industry association whose mission is to define, promote, and celebrate authentic Oregon craft cannabis. Though it has only recently launched, it already counts many of Oregon’s most important local brands among its members, and looks poised to help lead a craft cannabis movement both within the industry and…

“Just to add on, tremendous drugs pouring into the United States at levels that nobody has ever seen before. This has happened over the last three to four years in particular. The wall will stop much of the drugs from pouring into this country and poisoning our youth. We need the wall. It is imperative.”…

Maintaining an environment that supports cultivation and keeps plants healthy is not an easy task. In cannabis growing, there are a variety of factors that greenhouse managers and personnel must monitor to ensure that their plants are in a healthy environment that fosters growth and development. Temperature, humidity, lighting and CO2 levels are a few…